Todd Persen (@toddpersen) profile picture

CEO and Co-Founder @Era. Former Co-Founder of @InfluxDB (YC W13) and 2x Engineer @Pivotal (RIP). Girl Dad. Beard Aficionado. Man About Town. I ♥ Fish Tacos.

Bainbridge Island, WA
Joined April 2009
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Todd Persen retweeted
We are VERY excited to announce the launch of Depot CI. 🚀 Check out the full launch post here: depot.dev/blog/now-available…
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Now available: Depot CI 🚀 ⚡ CI was designed in 2015 when writing code was the bottleneck. That era is over. One engineer with agents is now operating like a team of 20. They're generating more code, across more branches, at a pace that would have been unimaginable three years ago. And all of that code has to flow through CI. Teams can hit 10x code velocity with agents today. But CI can't keep up. The slowest part of software development is no longer writing code. It's everything that comes after. Three years ago, we started by making the container build step faster. Then we made the runner faster. Then the individual build tools inside via remote caches. But we could only accelerate about 30% of the pipeline. The other 70% of CI, the control plane, the orchestration, the plumbing, etc., was always someone else's infrastructure. We could optimize around it, but we couldn't touch it. So we built our own. From scratch. Depot CI is a programmable CI engine built for how you're actually building software today. It's not a faster GitHub Actions. Think of Actions as a language Depot CI speaks — the first frontend to the engine, not the only one. Our own orchestrator. Our own compute subsystem. Our own plumbing. Prewarmed runners with your custom image already loaded. SSH debugging, CPU/memory metrics, parallel step support, and full API access built in. GitHub Actions syntax support from day one. depot.dev/blog/now-available…
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We’re excited to announce Sunflower Capital Funds I and II. Sunflower is a $250m fund that partners at the earliest stage with companies building foundations for modern enterprises, critical industries, and the physical world.
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Live from New York, it's Saturday night.
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We've been building 🚀 Now available: macOS runners on @depotdev All the speed of Depot at half the cost of GitHub-hosted runners. Check it out 👇 depot.dev/mac
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Spicy take of the day: @depotdev should become the new @Docker Hub. Such a sweet product: fast container builds, OIDC, simple install, amazing GitHub Actions runners. Meanwhile, we're still waiting for DockerHub service keys to be a thing. 🫤
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People asked for them, so we made it happen 🚀 GPUs are now available for GitHub Actions runners when using Depot Managed. This allows folks to leverage GPU capacity they've already purchased inside their GitHub Actions workflows to train and test without paying us for additional GPU time.
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Hey @VividSeats, I bought tickets days ago for a show in the UK that starts in 90 minutes and I still haven’t received them. And apparently your support team only works US hours, so I haven’t been able to get ahold of anyone. Can you help?
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Just wanted to follow up and say that @VividSeats handled this great - I got a phone call from them 5 minutes after my post and had replacement tickets in my inbox about 15 minutes later. We made it to the show on time and ended up sitting 5 rows from the stage. Happy family!
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Replying to @depotdev
@depotdev 🤝 @flydotio 🚀 You can now build your Fly applications with Depot, directly from flyctl ⚡️
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Yesterday there were significant "commercial changes" to the OSS project Benthos, so today we're announcing Bento, the 100% MIT licensed fork of the project formerly known as Benthos. warpstream.com/blog/announci…
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We raised $20M to build the future of data streaming infrastructure! Thanks to our partners at Amplify and Greylock for believing in us. Read more about our plans in our latest blog post! warpstream.com/blog/the-orig…
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🌧️Wettest Sept. 25 on record! 🌧️ With 0.82” of rain, yesterday eclipsed 2020 (0.75”) for Seattle’s wettest Sept. 25 in the history of Sea-Tac. It was also our soggiest day of the year (so far), surpassing the 0.70” that fell on Cinco De Mayo.
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Fixed a bug live on a call with a new Depot user in less than 15m. No bugs would be great. But this person was amazed at the speed and service. All of this to say that I think this type of quick turnaround is another developer experience thing that isn’t talked about much.
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My next thing with @ryanworl: WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible streaming system built on top of S3 with no stateful disks/nodes to run and 5-10x cheaper due to no cross-AZ bandwidth charges. Developer Preview is ready for self-serve sign-up, check it out! warpstream.com/blog/kafka-is…
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Todd Persen retweeted
The first Depot Drop Week is officially live 🚀 The first feature, our new cache storage architecture has already dropped. And we're releasing one feature per day the following days 👏 Stay in the loop 👇 depot.dev/drop-week
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Hey @FiskerInc! I’m very excited to finish ordering my Ocean, but the checkout experience broke on the last step and now trying to complete my order just takes me to a brand new configuration instead of finishing my reservation.
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Hey @elonmusk, my 5yo daughter finds it maddening when Sketchpad periodically starts erasing her existing lines when she adds new ones. It’s been doing this for years. If you open source Sketchpad, I will fix it for free. Deal?
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Todd Persen retweeted
New year means new release. You can now ingest Pandas DataFrames at 1.1M rows/s in QuestDB! This is 290x faster than it used to be 🤯 Check out our benchmarks: github.com/questdb/py-tsbs-b… #machinelearning #pandas #dataframe #opensource #database #questdb
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